Hat-ventilator



(No Model.)

:M. J. NASQIMENTO.

HAT VENTILATOR.

No. 814,048. Patented Mar. 1'7, 1885.

INVENTOR:

0.0. E S S E N W W N. PEI'EHS Pnammm n hor. Washinglon. I)v C.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.-

MANOEL J. NASQIMENTO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAT-VENTI LATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,048, dated March 17, 1885.

Application filed May 20:18:4. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MANOEL J. NASQIMENTO, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Hat-Ventilators, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings. in which- Figure 1 is a bot-tom View of a hat-ventilator 1o embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view thereof, partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a perspective view thereof, enlarged. 4 is a vertical section in line a: m, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate correr 5 sponding parts in the several figures.

My invent-ion consists of a hat-ventilator formed of a single piece of cork or other suitable material, perforated and secured to the hat, the operation and advantages thereof being hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the hat-ventilator,thesamebeing formed of a piece of cork, which is pierced or perforated vertically and secured to the hat, the perforations permitting the passage of air to the interior of the crown of the hat.

I am aware that it is not new to form a hatventilator of two pieces of material placed side by side, the same being inexpensive in construction and unreliable in operation, owing to the pressure of the head closing the ainpassages. Crimped wire and corrugated sheet metal have also been employed; but metal corrodes and discolors the hat and sweat-lining.

Blocks of wood have also been arranged at in tervals between the hat and sweat-lining, but are liable to drop off, thus destroying the ventilator. These defects are remedied by making the ventilator of one piece of cork or other suitable material with openings formed in the same, whereby it is quickly and easily constructed, and the openings are not liable to be closed or their walls broken, a cheaper, better, and stronger article thus being produced.

In practice two ventilators are applied to the hat at opposite places, as shown in the B represents the reeds, which are fastened to the piece A on opposite sides of the lower end thereof, the means of fastening being preferably by sewing through the fabric of the reeds and the piece A, the pieces of fabric or covering being doubled, so as to inclose the reeds, and their ends are above, so that they may be sewed through, to prevent displacement of the reeds, and also provide reliable means for connecting the fabric with the piece A. .By this provision both sides of the lower end of the ventilator are properly finished and closing of the openings from below is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hat-ventilator formed of asingle piece of cork with airpassages therein, and reeds which are inclosed in fabric secured to opposite sides of said piece, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A hat-ventilator formed of a single piece of material with air passages therein, and reeds which are inclosed in pieces of fabric which are doubled around the reeds and have their ends secured to said piece, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

M. J. NASQIMENTO.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. NVIEDERSHEIM, Jno. K. PLITT. 

